Summary

Chapter 11 of Miami describes further splintering in the Cuban exile community in Miami. The ‘Grupo Areíto,’ a collection of contributors to Areíto magazine, gathered to publish pieces promoting the normalization of relations with Cuba and the cessation violence for anti-Castro ends. These thinkers were only fringe members of the exile community, rejected by the majority. Figures like Dolores Prida, playwright and former Areíto contributor, who lived in New York and worked to gain attention to the cause from there, were simply not welcome in Miami. Didion describes such individuals as being “Cubans outside Cuba but estranged from ‘el exilio,’” (125) and notes that many of them became isolated from their fellow Cuban émigrés due to being shipped to the United States by their parents who had heard rumors that Castro was planning to send Cuban children to the Soviet labor...